EEUU: Recommendations for control the volunteer potato
An integrated approach using preventative, cultural, mechanical, biological, and chemical is recommended. Preventative measures can go a long way for avoiding the problem in the first place.
Pamela J.S. Hutchinson, Potato Cropping Systems Weed Scientist, University of Idaho Aberdeen R&E Center.
However, right now the issue is killing the volunteer potatoes already in the field.
These suggestions/recommendations are not complete. Updates and additions have been made (June 02, 2016) and are highlighted.
Also attached to this update is a 2005 Washington extension bulletin which includes extensive information on volunteer potato persistence in soil, winter survival, and biology, as well as preventative, cultural, mechanical, chemical, and biological control measures for volunteer potato: Steiner, C.M., G. Newberry, R. Boydston, J. Yenish, and R. Thornton. 2005. EB1993: Volunteer Potato Management in the Pacific Northwest Rotational Crops. 12 p. Washington State University and USDA.
Alert: June 02, 2016 pictures of volunteer potato in a sugar beet field near Aberdeen, ID. The mother tuber is only golf ball size and has produced a healthy 6 inch tall plant - tuber initiation has started!
Article full: http://pnwpestalert.net/uploads/Volunteer_potato_control_recommendations_for_2016_HUTCHINSON_June_02...
Fuente: http://pnwpestalert.net/uploads/Volunteer_potato_control_recommendations_for_2016_HUTCHINSON_June_02_2016.pdf
